(FILES) Colombian writer and Nobel Prize for Literature 1982 Gabriel Garcia Marquez attends 05 December, 2006 in Havana the inauguration of the XXVIII New Latin American Cinema festival. Marquez, nicknamed 'Gabo,' celebrates 06 March 2007, his 80th birthday. He was born in 1927 in the small provincial northern Colombian town of Aracataca, place who inspired him the classic 'One Hundred Years of Solitude'. AFP PHOTO/BALTAZAR MESA